Call me a hypocrite — I know I'm a hypocrite vlogger — but I couldn't watch either of those things. So bloggers go to the convention, but why? To say: Here I am, a blogger at the convention? That was cute in 2004, but it's cloying now.

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Other people use them too because they're great machines (like me and Ann Althouse), but the Obama kind of democrats like them because they're too expensive for the rabble and because Al Gore is on the board of Apple Inc.

I couldn't watch the first video because those women all talk with that annoying contemporary college girl cadence. I don't know quite how to describe it, but I find listening to it extraordinarily tiring.

Other people use them too because they're great machines (like me and Ann Althouse), but the Obama kind of democrats like them because they're too expensive for the rabble and because Al Gore is on the board of Apple Inc.

When it comes to trading in your stogy old Republican PC laptop running Windows for a hip *schwing* new Democratic Mac running um Apple, or perhaps Linux, I strongly advise against the impulse to buying the 17". Too unwieldy. The red-head (or is that strawberry blond?) is using a 17". You can see moving the curser from one side to the other would require extra thumb action. The 15", which the brunette is using, is better. That's what I'm using, and there are times even a 15" seems too large. I also use a Toshiba 17" running Windows 2000 and although a splendid machine, Windows is more interested in informing you all the wonderful things it's doing than it is in allowing you to get on with it. It's a total drag to use, and we hate each other.

That is all the laptop-related advice I care to convey at this time.

Reasons to go and blog the convention:

* To feel a part of something big.

* To be a part of something big.

* To observe and convey unique nuggets of wisdom

* To be able to tell their kids, "I was there."

* To get in on those free chocolate yogurt trail mix bars.

* To meet men.

* To get out of the house and have a reason to visit a new town.

* Helicopter rides.

* To make sense of things and then share that sense.

* Get out of doing the dishes.

* Vacation time that must be used or forfeited.

* Lack of anything better to do.

* Has a following that hangs on every word who insisted on it.

* Lost a bet.

* Was paid to.

* Was curious about Denver and this provided the perfect excuse to check it out.

* Has nearby relatives and combined visits.

* Hopes to meet a cowboy

* To check on property owned in Breckenridge, Vail, or Aspen.

* Wants to try a Denver omelette.

* To see Molly Brown's house because they saw Debbie Reynolds in a movie.

* To cruise Cheesman park.

* To see if there's really gold in Golden. Why else would they call it that?

* To see the boulders in Boulder and where Mork used to live and to look for JonBenet's house.

Just watched the TPM video that's supposed to be irritating. I disagree. I liked it a lot. It gives a wonderful sense of what's taking place. Great shot of Obama who looks fantastic on screen. Great smile, that guy. He reminds me of my older brother, whose name is also Barry, and that makes me like him. The whole family looked great.

Watched the shaky-cam all the way half way through, and that's a lot, especially for a thing on TPM, then got distracted by a helicopter. They're thick as flies on a ... on a ... on a thing that has a lot of flies and just hatched a bunch of helicopter maggots, that's what it's like. Wooo. There's another one.